Temporary holder for car-report blanks and the like.



N. D. BALLANTINE.

TEMPORARY HOLDER FOR CAR REPORT BLANKS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.16, 1911. 4

l 170,793. Patented Feb. y8, 1916.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., wAsHxN'rON, n.

NOTEN D. BALLANTINE, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

,TEMPORARY HOLDER FOR CAR-.REPORT 'BLAKS AND THEv LIKE.

Specification of Letterrslatent. l; fPatgntedFb 8 1916 Application filedAugust 16, 1911/. 'Serial No.j644,442.

To @ZZ/whom t may concern:

Be it 'known-that I, NOTEN D. BAYLLAN- TiNF., a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in TemporaryHolders for Car-Report Blanks and the like, of which I do declare thefollowingv to be a full, clear, and exact description, 'reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

The present invention has for its object to provide a simple andeffective means for temporarily holding blanks to be written upon, such,for example, as conductors7 car reports, wheel reports or the like, andthe invention consists in the features of improvement hereinafterdescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and particularlypointed out in the claim at the end of this specification.

Figure l is a perspective view of a temporary holder embodying myinvention. Fig.v 2 is a fractional view upon an enlarged scale incross-section. Fig. 3 is a fractional view upon an enlarged scale of twoadjacent leaves connected by a bias fabric.

As shown, the holder comprises the front cover A and back cover A hingedtogether as at A3. Between the covers A and A are arranged -a series ofVintermediate hinged spacing boards, plates or leaves B. Preferably,e'ach of the covers A and A is formed of a cardboard body' a to which is.glued the cloth a', the edges of this cloth being turned over the edgesof the body a upon its inner face'in the usual manner, and the centralpart of the cloth a forms the hinge back A3 thatV unites the covers Aand A. In order to enable the inner face of each of the covers A and Ato present a smooth and even support for the blank while it is beingwritten upon, I attach, as byvglue upon the inner face of each of thecovers A and A, a sheet of cardboard L2 or like` material sufficientlythick to afford a smoothv .y support for the blank and avoid anyirregularity incident to the folding` over of the edges of the cloth aupon the vinner face of the body a. That is to say, the sheet a2 will beso thick that when it is attached to the body a of the cover and extendsacross the folded edges of the cloth'ct, the folds of the cloth do notform ridges around the edges of the sheet c62, but this sheet presents asmooth surface overv substantially vthe whole inner'rface of the'cover,thereby enabling the'blanlrtoy be writ-'ten upon to its extreme edges.

y'.lhey boards ror sheets B are preferablyy formed; of 'at least ftwothicknesses of cardboard or likef material., in order that the sheets Bmay present smooth and unbroken surfaces to support the blanks to bewritten upon from edge to edge. These sheets B have their inner edgeshinged to the holder in the following manner: A strip C of cotton clothor other suitable material is connectedto each of the covers A and A bygluing the edges of this strip C between the facing sheet a2 of eachcover and the body a of each cover, and the strip of cloth C is providedwith a number of vfolds 0 which are arranged be tween the thicknesses ofthe cardboard or vlike material of which the portions or sheets B areformed.v These folds 'o of the cloth C and weft threads Vextend betweenand unitev the sheets or boards B together and to the covers A andv A.fBy thus disposing the cloth C so that the 'strength of both itsl warpand weft threads is utilized, greater durability is attained and I amenabled to use a lighter'qualityof clothv than would otherwise berequired. The report blanks will be temporarily held within my improvedholder by placing a blank between the cover A and the facing sheet orleaf B and securing it thereto temporarily, as with a wire paper clip orbyi an elastic band passing from end to end .of the cover at its hingejoint; and similarly, blanks will be placed between the succeedingleaves or boards B. My invention affords an exceedingly simple andeffective temporary holder for report blanks, such, for example, as areused by -conductors of railway trains, yard masters and others and it isadapted tofsustain the report blanks, so that each blank can be filledout or written upon to its extreme edge while supported upon a smoothsurface.

Having thus described Iny invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A temporary holder for report blanks and the like comprising front andback Covers formed of separate, outer, rigid boards, a coninion clothcovering extending over and secured to the outer faces of said outerboards and forming a iexible hinge between the same, the edges of saidcovering being folded over and secured to the inner faces of said outerboards, inner boards of heavy eard board secured to the inner surfacesof said outer boards and extending over the folded edges of the clothcovering, a leaf of the same size as said inner boards oomprising twothicknesses of heavy oard board secured together, and a flexible fabricstrip having its ends extending between and secured to the inner andouter boards of said cover and having a fold extending between andsecured to the boards of said leaf, said inner boards and said leafhaving smooth, uninterrupted rigid surfaces for supporting the blanks,substantially as described.

NOTEN D. BALLANTINE. Vitnesses:

ELEANOR HAGENow, KATHARINE GERLACH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing'the Commissioner nf Patents, Washington, D. C.

